[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Wed Oct 31 02:57:28 CET 2012

Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
+> On Tuesday 30 October 2012 09:37, Malo wrote:
+>> - there is only faac, so why bother? (fuelling the first reason)
+>
+> There is also another side to this, that we either haven't talked
+> about or doesn't know about. We are a Free software community, that
+> includes some nonfree software. (And therefore doesn't qualify as a
+> Free Software community according to some, but that's another
+> debate.) A part of beeing a Free software community is that we have a
+> preference as to what kind of software we are willing to work with.
+> That also means that there are software we are not willing to work
+> with.
+>
+> We could decide that «patented nonfree software» doesn't belong in
+> our distribution.
+>
+That has been our temporary decision, to the best of my knowledge always
+to be reviewed later.
+But as we can see, many users want certain packages in this category, so
+the topic keeps getting raised.
+For myself, with a very strong preference for open source, I'm very
+willing to accommodate those with a preference for certain non-free
+software.
+As well, there will always be proprietory software, particularly for
+niche situations, which is not necessarily bad.
+After all good ideas in proprietory software, which focuses on solving
+real-world needs, can inspire a lot of good free software.
+
+-- 
+André
+